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We study detection and imaging of small reflectors in heavy clutter, using an array of transducers that emits and receives sound waves. Heavy clutter means that multiple scattering of the waves in the heterogeneous host medium is strong and…

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We derive analytical expressions to describe how light is frequency-shifted when interacting with ultrasound within scattering media, due to the modulation of the refractive index induced by the ultrasound pressure waves. The model is…

Optics · Physics 2024-10-16 Adam Kinos

Imaging through opaque, highly scattering walls is a long sought after capability with potential applications in a variety of fields. The use of wavefront shaping to compensate for scattering has brought a renewed interest as a potential…

Diffraction tomography is a widely used inverse scattering technique for quantitative imaging of weakly scattering media. In its conventional formulation, diffraction tomography assumes monochromatic plane wave illumination. This…

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We study an inverse problem for the wave equation where localized wave sources in random scattering media are to be determined from time resolved measurements of the waves at an array of receivers. The sources are far from the array, so the…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2016-07-18 Liliana Borcea , Ilker Kocyigit

Starting from fundamental multiple scattering theory it is shown that negative refraction indices are feasible for matter waves passing a well-defined ensemble of scatterers. A simple approach to this topic is presented and explicit…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-03-07 Florian Pinsker

We present a quantitative study of coherent array imaging of remote sources in randomly perturbed waveguides with bounded cross-section. We study how long range cumulative scattering by perturbations of the boundary and the medium impedes…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2013-06-10 Liliana Borcea , Josselin Garnier , Chrysoula Tsogka

Scattering hinders the passage of light through random media and consequently limits the usefulness of optical techniques for sensing and imaging. Thus, methods for increasing the transmission of light through such random media are of…

Optics · Physics 2014-06-23 Curtis Jin , Raj Rao Nadakuditi , Eric Michielssen , Stephen Rand

Diffraction-limited imaging through complex scattering media is a long sought after goal with important applications in biomedical research. In recent years, high resolution wavefront-shaping has emerged as a powerful approach to generate a…

Optics · Physics 2014-10-17 Ori Katz , Eran Small , Yefeng Guan , Yaron Silberberg

The measurement of the Transmission Matrix (TM) of a scattering medium is of great interest for imaging. It can be acquired directly by interferometry using an internal reference wavefront. Unfortunately, internal reference fields are…

Optics · Physics 2019-04-25 Matthias Hofer , Sophie Brasselet

Reflective ptychography is a promising lensless imaging technique with a wide field of view, offering significant potential for applications in semiconductor manufacturing and detection. However, many semiconductor materials are coated with…

Optics · Physics 2025-01-03 Yun Gao , Qijun You , Peixiang Lu , Wei Cao

Three-dimensional phase contrast imaging of multiply-scattering samples in X-ray and electron microscopy is extremely challenging, due to small numerical apertures, the unavailability of wavefront shaping optics, and the highly nonlinear…

Computational Physics · Physics 2021-06-02 Philipp M Pelz , Hamish G Brown , Jim Ciston , Scott D Findlay , Yaqian Zhang , Mary Scott , Colin Ophus

The efficient delivery of light energy is a prerequisite for non-invasive imaging and stimulating of target objects embedded deep within a scattering medium. However, injected waves experience random diffusion by multiple light scattering,…

We review recent progress in analysing wave scattering in systems with both intrinsic chaos and/or disorder and internal losses, when the scattering matrix is no longer unitary. By mapping the problem onto a nonlinear supersymmetric…

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Imaging an object embedded within a scattering medium requires the correction of complex sample-induced wave distortions. Existing approaches have been designed to resolve them by optimizing signal waves recorded in each 2D image. Here, we…

Optics · Physics 2022-10-17 Ye-Ryoung Lee , Dong-Young Kim , Yonghyeon Jo , Moonseok Kim , Wonshik Choi

In this paper, we study the propagation of the Frozen Wave type beams through non-absorbing stratified media and develop a theoretical method capable to provide the desired spatially shaped diffraction resistant beam in the last material…

We formally deduce closed-form expressions for the transmitted effective wavenumber of a material comprising multiple types of inclusions or particles (multi-species), dispersed in a uniform background medium. The expressions, derived here…

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Many optical measurement techniques, such as light scattering from wavelength-scale particles or detecting motion from a surface with an optical lever, encode information in a complex radiation pattern. Extracting all available information…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-22 Youssef Tawfik , Shan Hao , Thomas P. Purdy

Non-invasive optical focusing inside scattering media is still a big challenge because inhomogeneous media scatter both incoming photons for focusing and outgoing photons for observation. Various approaches, utilizing non-linear…

Optics · Physics 2021-09-17 Dayan Li , Sujit Kumar Sahoo , Huy Quoc Lam , Dong Wang , Cuong Dang

The transmission matrix (TM) is a representation to describe the light scattering process through a scattering medium. The degree of control elements in TM is correlated with the capacity of evaluating enormous equations with tremendous…

Optics · Physics 2020-11-25 Shu Guo , Hao Zhang , Wenxue Li , Lin Pang